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Penina Glazer 16june2010 Yiddish Book Center
Penina Glazer, former board member at the Yiddish Book Center, speaks about her family's life in Eastern Europe and their journey to the US. Her mother, from Belarus, was the daughter of a shoykhet, a kosher butcher. Glazer explains how her grandfather landed in this occupation by convincing the rabbonim to certify him as well as arguing with them for three hours that Zionism would provide a better future for the Jews...
Keywords: Brooklyn; Zionism; 1930s; Depression; Aliyah; Farms; Kibbutz; Co-op; New Jersey; New Deal; Homesteads; shokhet; yiddishkeit; Hampshire College; women in Academia; Northampton; Yiddish Book Center; Wexler Oral History Project
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